Halter.



0. N. MoGLINTOGK. HALTER.

V APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 30, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

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CHARLES N. MCGLINTOGK, OF RIGDON, INDIANA.

HALTER.

Patented. June'15, 1909.

Application filed March 30, 1908. Serial No. 424,065.

No. 925,371. Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

piece 10, the terminal I) of which is clamped Be it known that 1, CHARLES N. MCCLIN- l to the nose loop 6 as indicated at 12. A TOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing hitching strap has a detachable connecat Rig-don, in the county of Madison and l tion with the hitching ring 5.

State of Indiana, have invented certain new I The described form of one piece halter posand useful improvements in Halters, of l sesses great strength owing to the numerous which the following is a specification. points at which it is reinforced by means of The present invention relates to the subl the permanent clamps which retain the brow, ect of harness, and has specially in view an head, and nose loops in the desired position 10 improved form of halter which maybe made relatively to the cheek pieces, and in order oi rope or similar material. 1 to adapt the same to various sizes of heads, The principal object of the invention is to it is contemplated employing the said rope provide a halter which may be constructed clamp 4 which cooperates with the two of one piece of rope or similar material in lengths 3 and 3 to regulate the size of the which a novel form of adjusting device is halter. Said rope clamp 4 comprises in its utilized to adapt the same to the heads of general organization a body plate 13, the different sizes of animals, and thereby proends of which are upturned as at 14:15 and vide a readily adjustable type of halter. each provided with an elongated opening The essential features involved in the pres- 1617 through which the two lengths 33 2O ent invention are necessarily susceptible to of the rope pass. A wedge W cooperates structural change without departing from with said plate 13 to clamp the ropes passing the scope of the invention, but a preferred through the ends thereof, said wedge being embodiment of the same is shown in the acslidingly mounted in the plate and having companying drawings in which tapering serrated sides 18, and an operating Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im handle 19 which projects through the end proved halter showing it in position on the opening 17 in the upturned end 15 of the head of a horse. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the plate 13. The opposite pointed end 20 of rope adjusting clamp. Fig. 3 is a sectional the wedge is bent over on itself to form a view thereof. guide rod 21 the end of which passes through Like characters of reference designate cora guide opening 22 formed in the end 15 at responding parts. one side of the opening 1-7 therein. A spiral In the embodiment of the invention shown spring 23 is mounted on said guide rod 22 in the accompanying drawings, the improved and arranged to bear against the end 15 of halter includes a side length forming one the plate 13. To facilitate the handling of cheek piece 1 starting from one terminal of the rope clamp 1, the handle thereof may be the rope, and which is extended into a loop provided with an operating rope or the like. 2 to form the head stall, thence under the From the foregoing description it will be throat as at 3, where it passes through one understood that normally the expansive side of an adjusting rope clamp 4 (to be deforce of the spring will be sufficient to retain 4O scribed in detail later on), then to and the wedge in binding contact with the two through a hitching ring 5, thence looped to sections, or lengths, of the rope. To release form a nose loop 6, one end of which is the same a pull on the handle of the wedge clamped to the cheek piece 1 as indicated at will cause the wedge to slide out of contact 7. After completing the nose loop 6, the with the rope sections, against the pressure rope is again passed through the hitching of the spring, so that said ropes may be adring 5, thence up as at 3 to and through the justed, after which the handle is. released opposite side of the adjusting clamp 4 to the whereupon the spring causes the Wedge to loop 2 forming the head stall, where the parts immediately assume its normal rope clampare clamped together as indicated at 8, and, ing position. if desired, one of the lengths of rope may be Claim A halter consisting of a single'length of rope arranged to provide cheek pieces, head stall, brow piece, and nose loop, and an adopened as at 8 to permit of the passage therethrough of the meeting length. From this point the rope is looped as indicated at 9 to form a brow piece the end of which is justing clamp for varying the size of the halclamped to the head stall, as at 9 and ter consisting of a body plate provided with thence extended to form the other cheek slotted downturned ends, one of said ends being provided With a guide 0 ening, a Wedge I In testimony whereof I hereunto aHiX my aving an integral guiderod sidingly mountsignature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ed in said guide opening, a spring coiled on said guide rod, the said Wedge being adapted 5 to have a movement through the slotted portion of one of said downturned ends to engage with the ropes passing therethrough.

CHARLES N. MoOLIN TOOK. Witnesses:

ELI P. MYERs, GEO. W. SMITH. 

